Khurram Zaki

Khurram Zaki (26 March 1976-7 May 2016) was a Pakistani scholar, blogger, and human rights activist who was killed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in 2016.

Biography
Khurram Zaki was born on 26 March 1976 in Karachi, Pakistan, and in 2002 he was employed at Contact Plus, a communications firm. In 2005, he joined the current affairs department for News ONE and was involved in human rights protests, including a sit-in outside of a government building in Karachi in protest of Pervez Musharraf's authoritarian regime. On 16 December 2015, he took part in another sit-in outside of the Lal Masjid on the one-year anniversary of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre, and he was involved in other protests and demonstrations. At 12:50 AM on 7 May 2016, he was shot dead by four men on two motorcycles with 9mm pistols at a hotel in North Karachi.